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Re: Automating Disk Utility
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John Baxter <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:54:28 -0800
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On Jan 16, 2006, at 1:58 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> P.S. How can I capture the information in the manual to a text  
> document? Simply?

man hdiutil | col -b > man-hdiutil.txt

Note:  there is no obvious reason to use a command named col to get  
rid of the backspaces, etc.  It's just "the way it's always been done."

   --John

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